The survey and its cover text (including study rationale, purpose of online survey, link to survey, deadline, whether to further circulate) were piloted amongst the AG (50% responded), which led to minor revisions.
Since HILDA is a household survey, the rationale for using multilevel models provided in the introduction of this paper was also relevant to this analysis.
One month later, an email was sent by the past Director General from the Ministry of Health asking potential respondents to complete the survey, the rationale being that if a more senior official that is familiar with most of the potential respondents sends out the survey invite, then there will be a positive effect on the response rate.
There the team would explain, without use of a standard text, the goal of the interview surveys, its rationale, and their wish to interview 10 people in the village who potentially had knowledge about local wildlife.
This paper presents a broad survey of the rationale for electron probe X-ray microanalysis (EPXMA) and the various methods for obtaining qualitative and quantitative information on the distribution and amount of elements, particularly calcium, in cryopreserved cells and tissues.
We excluded 345 matched patients who were under 25 years of age at the time of their survey under the rationale that their reported family income was more likely reflective of their parents' rather than their own.
The survey items and rationale for their inclusion are described in Tables 1 and 2. The two instruments were pretested for wording and content at restaurants, grocery stores and wet markets (open markets where stalls of fresh and prepared foods are sold by different vendors) in Kunming, and then finalized for pilot testing in three socio-demographically contrasting neighborhoods.
The rationale and survey methods have been described in previous publications [ 24, 28] and are briefly summarized here.
The rationale and survey methods have been described in previous publications [ 7, 8] and are only summarized briefly here.
